Hide Article Text (OCR)
START WORK ON 6LENW00DTeams And Men Put To Ex-cavating For Large Building READY FOR CHAUTAUQUAColiseum To Be Built At Once For Use In July And For Other Gatherings AndSpeakingsTeams, graders and workmen began excavations and grading at Glenwood park early this morning for a large and attractive permanent Chautauquabuilding and convention hall, which ia to be completed within 30 to 45 days in time for the 1915 Glenwood Chau* tauqua. The big building, which will be of a bungalow style and will cost complete at least $2,500, will fill a long-felt demand of Chautauqua patrons and will be accessible and suitable for other public meetings, concerts, entertainments, speakings and conventions.The stage will be 36 by 20 feet, amply large for any and all occasions. The new building will add greatly to the attraction of Glenwood Park and will bo available not only for the Glenwood Chautauqua, the third largest in tho United States, but also for New’ Albany, Jeffersonville and Louisville conventions, music festivals, church conferences, public school programs, public gatherings and speakings, concerts by famous bands and for picnics and park attractions.A permanent Chautauqua building, an improvement for the North Side that will fill a long felt want, is to be provided at once by Mr. T. E. Crawford, the popular manager of the New Albany and Jeffersonville Chautauqua, and it will be completed at Glenwood Park in time for the big Chautauqua, which begins July 10 and runs for sixteen days.The contract has been let to' Stephen Day Sons and arrangements made with the Louisville and Southern Indiana Traction Company for the use of the east portion of the Glenwood Athletic field for this purpose. The large Chautauqua building-I will have a seating capacity of 4.000, • j with large stage and well constructed to answer all requirements and it will'| be known as the Crawford Chautauqua Auditorium. This will insure .the Chautauqua program to be carried on “Rain or Shine,” and will be more satisfactory than a large tent used for ther past eleven years. While this will not be as pretentious as the original'Ibuilding proposed by the Traction Company, which was deferred indefi-| nitely, it will be built after the plans . of the one at Chautauqua Lake, New York.Mr. Crawford, desiring to abandon the use of a tent, arranged that the Chautauqua Association would erect the building, as he has contracted to' hold a high class Chautauqua at Glenwood for a period of years and secured permission to use a part of Glenwood Athletic field. This will not in any way interfere with the bait park, football or athletic grounds, as the athletic field contains ten acres and the park proper twenty-four acres of beautiful beech trees, known as the “Glenwood Beauty Spot.”The Chautauqua building will be erected near Silver Creek which is an1 ideal location and the seats will be on a natural Incline, giving the audience many advantages over the usual audit-torium or tent.
Newspaper Details
New Albany Weekly Tribune
New Albany, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 04, 1915
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
New A.
Indiana, USA 05 Apr 2017
Other Publications Near New Albany, Indiana
New Albany Weekly Ledger
New Albany Evening Tribune
New Albany Gazette
New Albany Ledger
New Albany Public Press
